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malware
Researchers develop AI system to detect scam websites in search results

Scam websites tied to online shopping, pet sales, and other e-commerce schemes continue to cause millions in losses each year. Security tools can accurately detect fraudulent …

Brain
When loading a model means loading an attacker

You probably think twice before downloading a random app or opening an unfamiliar email attachment. But how often do you stop to consider what happens when your team downloads …

energy sector
The energy sector is ground zero for global cyber activity

A new study from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology shows how geopolitical tensions shape cyberattacks on power grids, fuel systems, and other critical infrastructure. How …

Brain
CISOs brace for a new kind of AI chaos

AI is being added to business processes faster than it is being secured, creating a wide gap that attackers are already exploiting, according to the SANS Institute. The scale …

mapping attacker behavior
KillChainGraph: Researchers test machine learning framework for mapping attacker behavior

A team of researchers from Frondeur Labs, DistributedApps.ai, and OWASP has developed a new machine learning framework designed to help defenders anticipate attacker behavior …

malware detection
New framework aims to outsmart malware evasion tricks

Attackers have learned how to trick machine learning malware detectors with small but clever code changes, and researchers say they may finally have an answer. In a new paper, …

Adversarial AI Attacks review
Review: Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies

Adversarial AI Attacks, Mitigations, and Defense Strategies shows how AI systems can be attacked and how defenders can prepare. It’s essentially a walkthrough of …

work
The 6 challenges your business will face in implementing MLSecOps

Organizations that don’t adapt their security programs as they implement AI run the risk of being exposed to a variety of threats, both old and emerging ones. MLSecOps …

forget
Machine unlearning gets a practical privacy upgrade

Machine learning models are everywhere now, from chatbots to credit scoring tools, and they carry traces of the data they were trained on. When someone asks to have their …

software
Behind the code: How developers work in 2025

How are developers working in 2025? Docker surveyed over 4,500 people to find out, and the answers are a mix of progress and ongoing pain points. AI is gaining ground but …

non-human identities
How agentic AI and non-human identities are transforming cybersecurity

Within the average enterprise, non-human identities (NHIs) now outnumber employees, contractors, and customers by anything between 10-to-1 and 92-to-1. Add to this the …

Yinglian Xie
Generative AI is reshaping financial fraud. Can security keep up?

In this Help Net Security interview, Yinglian Xie, CEO at DataVisor, explains how evolving fraud tactics require adaptive, AI-driven prevention strategies. With fraudsters …

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